Hair-curler.



Patentad Mar. 5, l90l. A HAUG HAIR GURLEB. (Applxcatmn filed Apr 9 1900)(No Model) AENT tries.

ANDREWV I-IAUG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HAlR-CURLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,460, dated March 5,1901.

Application filed April 9,1900. Serial No. 12,121. No model.)

To all whom 7/6 may concern.-

Be it known that. I, ANDREW HAUG, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHair-Curlers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hair-curlers.

My object is to provide a simple and practical implement of this classwhich shall obviate many of the disadvantages of the ordinary cu rler.The most com mon form of curler comprises a solid cylindrical bar havinga pivoted arm at one side which coincides with the bar when closed. Therod and arm have handles and are provided with a pressurespring forkeeping them closed. Before curling the hair the combined bar and armare heated, and when hot are separated by pressing the handles, areclamped upon the lock or curl, and are then turned so as to roll thehair around them. As the iron soon coolsit must usually bereheated foreach successive application to the hair. Further, if a gas or oilfiamebe used for heating the iron takes up particles of smut and soot,making it necessary to wipe the bar before applying it to the hair,during which it cools, and when this wiping is neglected or is donecarelessly such soot and smut are communicated to the hair by directcontact. Further, there is always difficultyin determining whether theiron has been heated to the right degree for curling, and it is a commonexperience to heat it too hot, set it down to cool, and then have toreheat it. All these annoyances are inseparable from the use of theordinary hair-curler.

It has been proposed to use a separate iron for heating a hollow bar;but so far as I am aware the construction suggested has beencomplicated, expensive, and unpractical. I desire to obtain all theadvantages of the common hair-curler and to obviate the disadvantagesreferred to,.besides saving much time in the operation of curling.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure l is a perspective view of my hair curler. Fig. 2 is a separateview of an independent heating-bar. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section ofthe curler shown in Fig. 1 with the heating-iron in place.

A represents a cylindrical hollow curlingbar closed at the outer end,but open at the inner end,\vhere it becomes a half-tube, and is bent toform a shank to receive a non-conducting-handle B. A lip or projectionto is formed at the base of the tubular part,which is passed through aslot 17 in the arm 0, and is bent down outside, as shown. The lip thusforms a pivot on which the arm 0 turns. The arm has side guides c, whichpartly embrace the curling-bar, and is of curved cross section toconform to the shape of the latter. Like the part A it is bent outwardlyand provided with a similar handle D. Near the ends of the handleportions of the bar A and arm 0, respectively, are secured the free endsof a pressure-spring E,which is thus held between the two parts andtends to keep their coinciding surfaces in contact. The spring extendsup nearly to the end of the hollow bar, where it is provided with anopening. When a wire spring is used, as shown, a coil 6 is formedcentrally in the spring. Should a flat leaf be used a hole Would beformed. at the bend; but as this would weaken the spring I prefer theconstruction shown. The iron described is as simple and as easily andcheaply made as the ordinary hair-curler. This iron is heated while itis in the hair by the separate heating-bar E, which has anon-conducting-handle and an enlarged end, which fits rather loosely inthe hollow curling iron. The coil in the spring admits the heating-barand, in fact, forms a guide for it, and it is by making such an openingin the spring that I am enabled to use such a simple form ofconstruction to place the spring in the most effective position betweenthe two handles and to avoid interference in inserting the heating-bar.

As the bar E is separately heated, the curler can be applied to the haircold and time can be taken to roll the curl to the exact extent desired.The bar E is inserted while the curler is in place in the hair andcommunicates heat immediately to the curling-iron. In practice it hasbeen found that after the curler has been once heated several curls canbe formed without reheating the bar E,which saves much time and trouble.In any event, while a new curl is being rolled on the curler the bar Eis being reheated, so that the operation is practically continuousinstead of being constantly interrupted, as is now the case, by thenecessity of reheating the solid iron. It is not necessary to wipe theheating-bar, and the outside of the curling-bar is always clean and freefrom soot or smut. A little practice makes the user expert as to theextent to which the bar E should be heated and as to how quickly thecurler will derive sufficient heat for curling.

I do not limit myself to the exact details of construction andarrangement herein described and shown in the drawings, as I desire toavail myself of such modifications and equivalents as fall properlywithin the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a hair-curler, a hollow curling-bar, 2o

passed through said coil and into said curling- 0 bar.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature, in presence of twowitnesses, this 31st day of March, 1900.

ANDREW HAUG.

Witnesses:

L. W. SEELY, F. M. BURT.

